The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 9
... night . The nails of a European , like those of the Râkshasa , distil a deadly poison , and hence he is afraid to eat with his fingers , as all reasonable people do , and prefers to use a knife and fork . 1 " Panjâb Notes and Queries ...
... night . The nails of a European , like those of the Râkshasa , distil a deadly poison , and hence he is afraid to eat with his fingers , as all reasonable people do , and prefers to use a knife and fork . 1 " Panjâb Notes and Queries ...
Side 27
... night to pacify the ghosts of the dead beans were flung on the fire of + the altar to drive the spirits out of the house . The same idea appears in the Carlings or fried peas given away and eaten on the Sunday before Palm Sunday . No ...
... night to pacify the ghosts of the dead beans were flung on the fire of + the altar to drive the spirits out of the house . The same idea appears in the Carlings or fried peas given away and eaten on the Sunday before Palm Sunday . No ...
Side 33
... night . And Hudibras tells how- 1 Yule , " Marco Polo , " ii . 69 , 99 ; Herodotus , v . 6 ; and for the Dacians , Pliny , " Natural History , " vii . 10 ; xxii . 2 . 2 Loc . cit . , ii . 218 . 3 Hislop , " Papers , " ii . , note ...
... night . And Hudibras tells how- 1 Yule , " Marco Polo , " ii . 69 , 99 ; Herodotus , v . 6 ; and for the Dacians , Pliny , " Natural History , " vii . 10 ; xxii . 2 . 2 Loc . cit . , ii . 218 . 3 Hislop , " Papers , " ii . , note ...
Side 44
... Nights , " takes a ring from each of her lovers as a token . * The same idea attaches to the bracelet , which is in close connection with the soul of the wearer . Such is the Chan- danhâr or sandal - wood necklace of Chandan Râja , and ...
... Nights , " takes a ring from each of her lovers as a token . * The same idea attaches to the bracelet , which is in close connection with the soul of the wearer . Such is the Chan- danhâr or sandal - wood necklace of Chandan Râja , and ...
Side 47
... Nights " went to the bath , and when not long ago the Mikado of Japan and other Eastern potentates took their walks abroad . We thus reach by another route the cycle of Godiva legends . " OMENS . Closely connected with the class of ...
... Nights " went to the bath , and when not long ago the Mikado of Japan and other Eastern potentates took their walks abroad . We thus reach by another route the cycle of Godiva legends . " OMENS . Closely connected with the class of ...
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Side 19 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Side 325 - when the granaries are full of grain, and the people, to use their own expression, full of devilry. They have a strange notion that at this period, men and women are so over-charged with vicious propensities, that it is absolutely necessary for the safety of the person to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions.
Side 146 - A totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and altogether special relation.
Side 284 - They have an astonishing acquaintance with the devilries of enchantment; insomuch that they make their idols to speak. They can also by their sorceries bring on changes of weather and produce darkness, and do a number of things so extraordinary that no one without seeing them would believe them. Indeed, this country is the very original source from which Idolatry has spread abroad.